- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 30 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions in the last year for which figures are available the police recommended to licensing boards that a licence for a bar or off-licence should be terminated or not renewed because of the way the establishment operated and on how many of these occasions the board terminated or did not renew the licence.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2003
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Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to address any shortage of psychiatric specialist clinicians and nurses in Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answer
The Executive is working closely with NHS Scotland and professional bodies to build capacity within NHSScotland across all specialties, including psychiatry. The Scottish Executive has committed to 375 more junior doctors by 2004 and 600 more consultants by 2007, which will help in shortage specialties.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many psychiatric specialist posts are unfilled, or filled by short-term or locum contract, broken down by grade and specialism for each of the last five years, expressed also as a percentage of optimum staffing levels per grade, in each NHS board.
Answer
The information required is substantial and I will write to the member with a full response and place a copy in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2003
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 27 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which of the contractors who expressed an interest in bidding for groundworks contracts in relation to the construction of the new Auchinkilns interchange on the A80 have withdrawn their interest and what the reasons for any withdrawals were.
Answer
Barr Limited and Mowlem plc withdrew from the opportunity to bid for the construction of the A80 Auchenkilns Interchange. In each case the reason given was conflict with other business opportunities.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 18 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether residential properties used by local authorities to locate offices, to provide services or to house individuals in their care can be the subject of anti-social behaviour orders and what the range of penalties is for failure to comply with such orders.
Answer
Anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) were introduced by section 19 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. They can be used to address anti-social behaviour by individuals wherever it occurs, so long as the anti-social conduct is not against persons of the same household as the individual named on the application. Under section 22(1) of the 1998 Act, breach of ASBO is a criminal offence for which the penalties are up to six months imprisonment or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both on summary conviction and up to five years imprisonment and an unlimited fine or both on indictment.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2003
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Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance or instructions it has issued to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to address the levels of pollution being generated by the landfill site operated by Shanks McEwan at Greengairs near Airdrie.
Answer
None. This is an operational matter for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, carried out as a matter of course in discharging its duty to regulate landfill. The operator is shortly expected to apply for a new permit to comply with the Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003. Consideration of this application will enable the agency to address the operation of this site in great detail.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 16 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in view of its commitment in A Partnership for a Better Scotland to encourage the integration of refugees into local communities, it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government that the children of asylum seekers held at Dungavel House immigration removal centre should be allowed to attend local schools.
Answer
Immigration and asylum issues, including the educational provision for children at Dungavel, are reserved matters.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 June 2003
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Answered by Hugh Henry on 16 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Nicholson Committee's report on licensing laws will be published.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-193 on 3 June 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2003
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 12 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty's Government regarding the economic impact of employment restrictions on asylum seekers in Scotland.
Answer
Regular tri-partite meetings are held with the Minister of State for Citizenship and Immigration and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office, to discuss the implications of asylum and immigration policy for Scotland. A wide range of issues are discussed at these meetings.
- Asked by: Donald Gorrie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 10 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what interim steps it is taking to ensure that families whose children are entitled to free school meals and who have switched to the new Child Tax Credit from income support retain their children's entitlement to free school meals until legislation on this matter comes into force in January 2004.
Answer
Pending legislative changes currently being considered by the Parliament, administrative arrangements are in place to ensure that families whose children are entitled to free school meals under existing legislation are not disadvantaged if they move from Income Support to Child Tax Credit.
